Monday, 18 May 2009

Conspiracy to defraud the taxpayer

A whole new level? Ben Chapman has shown himself to be a grasping fool with a massive sense of entitlement, and also a thief. He claimed interest that he was not liable to pay as he had paid off nearly £300k of his mortgage. He blames the fees office for this. He will not repay any of the "overclaimed" £15k. I feel sick.

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The Wall Street Journal and the Mail late yesterday evening were carrying stories of who made all the information available. It seems the Fees Office hired in extra staff, mostly ex servicemen, to get the information on to computer, and it is a former Special Air Services officer who was acing as middle man for the 'suppliers' to the papers. Interestingly they didn't want a Sunday paper, they specifically wanted a daily that would release information over some days. The people involved say they didn't do it for the money, though they didn't specify why exactly - just general 'wanted to show them all up' explanations that don't really seem enough to take such a risk.

Very interesting, who got the information out, and why. It wasn't going to come out, despite the high court judgment, not in full. Knits.